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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Buescher To Sprint Cup With Front Row Motorsports

Roush
Fenway Racing has announced an enhanced technical alliance with Front Row
Motorsports, with the championship organization now providing engineering,
equipment and driver support to Front Row in 2016.

As
a key part of the alliance, 2016 NASCAR XFINITY Series Champion and Roush
Fenway driver Chris Buescher will drive the No. 34 Front Row Ford Fusion in the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series during the 2016 season, with the team receiving full
engineering and pit support from Roush Fenway.

“We
are thrilled to announce this alliance,” said Roush Fenway President Steve
Newmark. “Not only will it foster increased communication within the Ford
camp, it will allow our newest champion Chris Buescher to continue to hone his
skills with substantial seat time behind the wheel in the Sprint Cup Series in
top-grade equipment.

“We
look forward to working more closely with Front Row on many levels and we
believe it is a relationship that will be mutually beneficial for both
parties,” added Newmark.

Buescher,
in only his second season of full-time NASCAR racing in 2015, powered his way
to the XFINITY Championship and added to his list of accomplishments that
already included becoming the youngest driver to ever win an ARCA title in
2012. Buescher scored his first NASCAR win last season at Mid-Ohio and followed
up his rookie-year performance with wins at Iowa and Dover this season en route
to the championship.

Buescher
never ranked lower than third in the driver championship standings, and the
Prosper, Texas native completed the season with zero DNFs. He finished inside
of the top-20 in all of the 33 races on the season, completing 99.9 percent of
the laps during the 2015 campaign, while leading a total of 263 laps.

“We’ve
grown a lot and accomplished a lot as an organization in our six years of
full-time Sprint Cup racing, and I’m proud of our progress,” Front Row
Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins said. “We’re ready for the next step, and this
partnership with Roush Fenway Racing is going to take us there. Chris Buescher
is a champion, and he’s a driver that we’ve worked with already and have great
respect for, so he’s the perfect guy to bring into our line-up.”

Plans
for Front Row Motorsports’ second Sprint Cup Series entry will be announced at
a later date.